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I deeply regret that I was unable to personally greet the congress.

I have had occasion to speak more than once about the significance of the book "Plan of Electrification" and even more so about electrification itself*. Large-scale machine industry and its extension into agriculture is the sole economic foundation of socialism, the sole foundation for the successful struggle for the liberation of humanity from the yoke of capital, from the beating and maiming of tens of millions of people for the resolution of the question of whether the rapacious English or German, Japanese or American predator, etc., will gain the upper hand in the division of land.

The Workers' and Peasants' Soviet Republic has begun the systematic and planned electrification of our country. However meager, however modest our beginning, however incredibly great the difficulties of this task for a country ruined by landlords and capitalists through 4 years of imperialist and 3 years of civil war, for a country surrounded by the bourgeoisie of the entire world, eager to crush it and transform it into its colony, however painfully slow the progress of electrification proceeds among us—yet it does proceed. With the aid of your congress, with the aid of all the electrotechnicians of Russia and a number of the best, most advanced scientific forces of the entire world, with the heroic efforts of the vanguard of workers and laboring peasants, we shall accomplish this task, we shall create the electrification of our country.

I greet the VIII All-Russian Congress of Electrotechnicians and wish it every success in its work.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

Written October 8, 1921

Printed October 11, 1921

in the "Bulletin of the VIII All-Russian Electrotechnical Congress" No. 3

Printed from the manuscript

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# DRAFT DIRECTIVES OF THE POLITBURO OF THE CC RCP(b) ON THE ALLOCATION OF LAND FOR SUGAR BEET CROPS IN UKRAINE

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Directives

Of the Politburo on the question of the allocation of land in Ukraine for sugar crops by factories and on the subjection of peasants on lands adjacent to sugar factories to compulsory crop rotation and specific norms of cultivation.